Tuina Therapy

The department was established in 1961 by Professor Shen Jingyun, a provincially renowned TCM physician and a nationally renowned senior TCM expert. With “Shen-style Tuina” as its distinctive specialty, it has developed unique technical strengths in spinal and joint injuries and diseases, scoliosis, Tuina treatment of internal medicine conditions, and pediatric Tuina, earning widespread praise from patients. The department has 53 physicians, with holders of master’s or doctoral degrees accounting for 98%; its diagnostic and treatment area is nearly 2,000 square meters, it has 62 operational beds, and it is equipped with internationally advanced diagnostic and treatment equipment and TCM specialty equipment worth more than RMB 10 million. It serves more than 160,000 patient visits annually and has 2,000 discharged patients; its overall software and hardware scale ranks first among Tuina departments in the province.

Technical Advantages

1. Spinal and joint disorders: cervical spondylosis, cervical disc herniation, cervicogenic dizziness and headache, low back pain, lumbar disc herniation, lumbar spinal canal stenosis, degenerative spinal hyperostosis, spinal joint malalignment, postpartum low back pain, refractory neck and low back pain; stress-related neck pain and low back pain in adolescents; knee disorders; periarthritis of the shoulder (frozen shoulder).

2. Postural correction and scoliosis: uneven shoulders in children and adults, pelvic misalignment, rounded shoulders and kyphosis, “wealth hump”; temporomandibular joint disorder (facial asymmetry); correction of foot and ankle joint deformities in children and adolescents, poor posture, and scoliosis.

3. Pediatric Tuina: indigestion in children, anorexia, infantile malnutrition (ganji), functional constipation, the common cold, sinusitis, allergic rhinitis, adenoid hypertrophy, tonsillar hypertrophy, infection-prone children, pediatric muscular torticollis, and childhood tic disorder.

4. Internal medicine conditions: insomnia, anxiety; constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, dyspepsia; obesity (weight reduction), type 2 diabetes; primary dysmenorrhea, perimenopausal syndrome; spasmodic torticollis, Meige syndrome, and hemifacial spasm.

Academic Standing

It is a key TCM specialty and key discipline in Zhejiang Province, the province-wide TCM medical technology guidance center for the prevention and control of adolescent scoliosis, the lead institution for the Hangzhou pilot of the national TCM prevention and control program for scoliosis, the chairing institution of the Zhejiang Province Scoliosis Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine Diagnosis and Treatment Specialty Alliance, and the deputy-director institution of the Zhejiang Provincial Tuina Quality Control Center.

Research Achievements

The department undertakes multidisciplinary teaching at different levels for undergraduate and graduate students; it has led more than 10 projects, including projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and major provincial research projects, and holds a leading position in China in clinical and basic research on spinal injuries and diseases and scoliosis.